The Fast 800 Quotes

“How to boost your M score A simple way to boost your M score is to adhere to the following simple rules: 1. Reduce sugars and starchy carbs Cut right back on sugary starchy foods, such as cakes, sweets, biscuits, chips, fruit juices and soft drinks, as these rapidly turn into sugar in your blood, causing sugar spikes, a surge in insulin and weight gain. Aim to have them less than twice a week. You also need to watch out for foods that get rapidly converted to sugars in your blood, such as: • Potatoes, bread, white rice and white pasta.”
― Michael Mosley, The Fast 800

“Whatever diet you decide to follow, it is vital that you are getting enough daily protein (at least 50-60g a day), otherwise you will lose muscle. You also need to be sure you are getting enough of all the other essential nutrients – you should avoid going on one of those crazy cabbage soup or green juice diets, for example. The menus in this book were created to be safe and sustainable.”
― Michael Mosley, The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health

“As two leading weight loss experts, Dr Corby Martin and Professor Kishore Gadde from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, put it, ‘The myth that rapid weight loss is associated with rapid weight gain is no more true than Aesop’s fables.”
― Michael Mosley, The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health

“Above all, Professor Jebb is frustrated by how slowly things are changing. ‘This is an area of medicine where our understanding has come on in leaps and bounds but practice has not changed. If we had a new drug which had achieved what DIRECT (Roy Taylor’s diabetes study) had achieved it would be screamed from the roof tops… We have something which is effective and which is really cheap. And we are not doing it. I find that unbelievable.”
― Michael Mosley, The Fast 800: How to Combine Rapid Weight Loss and Intermittent Fasting for Long-Term Health